Bhagwati talking to Stiglitz

He [Joe Stiglitz] actually told me that he faced [spoke to] a hundred thousand people at Bombay…I did tell him that he should not get too excited, because I grew up in Bombay and when I went for a walk to the beach, I normally saw about two hundred thousand people! So that doesn’t mean very much in Bombay.

Here is the whole interview, which has numerous interesting bits on India, globalization, and economic development.  Here is my earlier post on population density in Bombay.